Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 996 Filming Begins (33)

Yang Mi has been the most popular actress this summer!
She played the female lead in both "Dying to Survive" and "Project Gutenberg"...

Liu Sihui, who starred in "Dying to Survive," has earned her countless praises.

In the hazy, ambiguous smoke of the nightclub, Yang Mi's pose leaning against the steel pole was stunning, and her character, struggling alone in Shanghai for her sick daughter, was also very independent!
Although, after that, the character of Liu Sihui gradually gave way to Lü Shouyi, who had more painful and tear-jerking moments, and even the part where Sihui returned to Cheng Yong's side to help him sell medicine was not explained further...

Even Liu Sihui's fate was not explained...

Two possibilities: First, her daughter died and she left the city; second... she left with her daughter.

After all, she was part of a drug-selling gang. Although she wasn't sentenced, it's definitely on their record!
Dig a little deeper, and this person has quite a story...

Although the storyline only touched on the surface, the character Liu Sihui completely transformed Yang Mi's persona—making her seem like a naive and innocent girl.

Before "Dying to Survive" has even finished its run in theaters, "Project Gutenberg" has already premiered, and this time, she plays two roles.

Although "Project Gutenberg" is a male-dominated drama, her performances as Ruan Wen and Xiu Qing were consistently excellent. The few seconds she spent smoking with tears in her eyes were absolutely breathtaking!

It still attracted a lot of attention…

"Dying to Survive" + "Project Gutenberg"!
She was also a mentor on this summer's hottest talent show, "Produce 101"...

Reaching new heights in your career!

This year, the number of endorsements she has can be found from Guomao to Wangjing.

A senior executive of a luxury brand privately complained: "Hiring Yang Mi is like buying insurance for trending topics."

The press conference hasn't even started yet, and the hashtag #YangMiNewEndorsement# has already climbed into the top three.

What is a top influencer? This is what a top influencer is!

It's not that she's chasing traffic, it's that traffic is chasing her.

What's the most outrageous thing?

Competing brands actually approached her for talks at the same time.

For brands, the most important thing is data!

Data doesn't lie!

As for high-end luxury brands, Gucci and L'Oréal, who have been cooperating with them for a long time, have also been upgraded—becoming brand ambassadors for the Asian region!
Shen Yan doesn't care about the so-called fashion circle—does accepting a high-end luxury endorsement mean the audience approves of you?

Isn’t this nonsense!

But celebrities big and small in the Chinese entertainment industry care a lot. There's a joke circulating in the fashion circle: the wardrobes of actresses born in the 85s don't hold clothes, but rather gleaming badges of their status!

Oh, Yang Mi is very grateful to Shen Yan, so she made a free cameo appearance in "Where the Wind Blows"...

……

Erhai Lake is so beautiful!

A row of roses and the azure Erhai Lake instantly brought tears to my eyes. I don't know how to describe the beauty or the feelings I had at that moment; I can only recall a line from a song: "Forever like the first time I saw you, making my heart flutter..."

It was a feeling of fluttering in my heart, just like a beautiful girl I'd never seen before suddenly appearing in my heart!

The next morning at 7 a.m., Shen Yan rode his bicycle around Erhai Lake, from Xizhou Town to Shuanglang Town…

The sky in Dali is a pure blue, with fluffy white clouds drifting in the wind.

The green rice paddies below Cangshan Mountain are bathed in the clear blue sky.

I rode along the Qixing Lake track to its end. The reddened metasequoia trees dotted the lake shore, and the houses on the opposite side of the lake looked out over the water. In the distance, the mountains rose and fell, creating a pastoral landscape painting.

The reddish trees along the lake stood neatly on the shoreline, blending seamlessly with the blue sky to create a picturesque scene, possessing a unique charm. Shen Yan took several beautiful photos and uploaded them to Maoyan short video platform, captioning them, "The wind that thinks of you blows across Erhai Lake!"

Then she sent it to Shishi: "Does it look good?"

Shi Shi posted a photo of herself eating: "We're enjoying a soup made with water lilies..."

Shen Yan immediately felt his mouth water: "I'll go back right away!"

……

The filming location for "Go to the Windy Place" is Fengyangyi, the location of the Windy Courtyard where Xu Hongdou lived, which is only 7 kilometers away from Dali Ancient City.

It was once part of the Dali section of the Yunnan-Tibet Tea Horse Road. It is very quiet and simple. From the outside, it looks like an abandoned village. There are old houses covered with flowers and plants and with mottled walls, as if they have been forgotten by time.

Most of the courtyards in the village have now been converted into guesthouses, teahouses, cafes, indigo dyeing workshops, music studios, etc.

Now, it's not considered a tourist attraction...

In Fengyangyi, you can ride horses along stone-paved roads and earthen houses, where traces of the ancient Tea Horse Road are still visible. You can also experience tie-dyeing and ceramics. Strolling through the village alleys, you'll realize what a place truly forgotten by time looks like.

Actually, the courtyard with the wind is very real!
Before Xu Hongdou came, they knew each other in the small courtyard, but they didn't have much interaction, and the boss wouldn't come to ask you to do this or that every few days.

No one has mentioned Xu Hongdou's previous tenant!
It's normal for a novelist like Damai to need a quiet place and come here;
Hu Youyu is a singer, so it's normal for him to live in Youfeng Courtyard; there are many like him in Dali Old Town.

Master Ma sought solace in nature after his entrepreneurial failures.

Nana, normally speaking, is someone who travels and works at the same time, a kind of budget travel, and there are quite a few people like that.

However, because of her past, Nana chose to live a secluded life and became an employee at a coffee shop...

It's quite normal for someone like Xu Hongdou to fulfill a wish because her best friend passed away.

It's perfectly normal for these people to go to Dali.

That's right, these people don't have that much overlap.

Most of them stayed for a few months and then left, at most exchanging WeChat contacts and saying they would keep in touch when they got back, but in reality they never contacted each other again after returning home.

A passerby in life!
The story begins with Xu Hongdou…

She came to the Windy Courtyard and then interacted with everyone there…

Before Xu Hongdou arrived, she was busy at the hotel, treating every guest with kindness and gentleness, but she hadn't taken good care of her own life.

Or rather, she has no life of her own!
Shen Yan was deeply impressed by this drama – there were no villains, a gentle sadness, and ordinary warmth. There were no melodramatic plots or bad endings, making it a visual and psychological treat.

The ending is also clean: the friends did not gather in Yunmiao Village to develop together as expected. They only came to celebrate and support the opening of the homestay. All the friends went to develop in different places. Even Xie Xiaoxia went out to learn wood carving techniques instead of becoming a big wood carving boss in Yunmiao Village!

Unexpectedly, it makes sense.

How many good things in the world can happen at the same time in the same place?

It's just that... Li Xian's acting wasn't good; he kept grinning like an idiot. Actually, Xie Zhiyao is supposed to be more mature than the female lead in the drama, and his innocent, puppy-dog-like performance was appealing, but it felt a bit out of place with the character.

By the way, the "Water Spinach Soup" uses water hyacinth (scientific name: *Ottelia acuminata*) grown in clean waters such as Erhai Lake and Lugu Lake in Yunnan Province. It gets its name "Water Spinach" because its stems and leaves float with the water flow…

The taste is ok.

In Yunnan, people like to add mushrooms to their soups; mushrooms are naturally very flavorful…

On the third day after Shen Yan arrived in Dali, filming for the TV series officially began!

(End of this chapter)